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Word: emett (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spun by a Stakhanovite spider. One-and two-car trains jog across the countryside as leisurely and erratically as the village gossip on her daily rounds. Except on the crack trains, cars are dirty, creaky, ramshackle and old, though also comfortable in a musty, antimacassar way. Cartoonist Rowland Emett has epitomized both Britain's love and loathing in Punch's "FarTwittering and Oysterperch Railway." But these rachitic sinews manfully bore the baggage of war. When the railroads were nationalized by the Socialists in 1948, the equipment was overaged, the labor force (at the unions' insistence) oversized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Willing the Means | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...simple cartoonlike models, such as trains reminiscent of Cartoonist Rowland Emett's famed rickety railways in Punch; and "Sky," in which a pair of crescent moons dance around a corona-circled sun and lesser heavenly bodies ($3.95 each, produced by Pace Design Studios, Chicago). ¶Seasonal groups, such as "Santa," featuring a robust St. Nick, a reindeer and a star-carrying angel, all suspended from a crescent moon; and "Spring," a versatile, pastel menage of rabbits, flowers, birds and butterflies ($1 and $1.95, Scamanda Mobiles, Manhattan). ¶Decorative abstractions, such as Sculptor Marechal Brown's "Tapered Quills," looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mobilization | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...WORLD FOR NELLIE (38 pp.)-Rowland Emett-Harcourt, Brace ($2). A fussy, ramshackle British train with a bad case" of wanderlust spins off to America as a plane, masquerades a while as a riverboat, and returns as a submarine, fueled solely by the remarkable comic imagination of one of Punch's most inventive contributors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Children's Hour | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

Missing are the traditional cartoons that were merely illustrations for dialogue. Punch's modern jokes are in the drawings themselves, broad, often wildly exaggerated cartoons by Britain's best$#151;Emett, Anton, Sprod, Francois, ffolkes-with only a helpful nudge or two from the captions. And most of the characters are the kind Americans can understand: taxi drivers, sidewalk hawkers, boy geniuses, women in telephone booths, snake charmers, acrobats, psychoanalysts, woolly dogs, fancy new cars and rickety old ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Listen for the Roars | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...down a 15-inch-gauge, 500-yard track scooted two not-too-reasonable facsimiles of the Emett trains (rechristened "Far Tottering and Oyster Creek"), past weird scenery erected along the line: flat-footed cows, crooked lampposts hung with lobster pots. One train had a candy-striped engine with a balloon-shaped boiler and an elegant, winged smokestack; the other had spidery wheels, a teapot boiler and potted pink geraniums on top. Midgets dressed up as policemen were hired the first week to direct the delighted crowds which flocked about Britain's own Toonerville Trolley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tragedy in Wonderland | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

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